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📅 July 26 & 27: BOHM’S HARD PROBLEM & DEVICE CULTURE

with Richard Burg, Melissa Nelson, Hester Reeve, Aja Bulla Zamasti

In the 1980s David Bohm pointed to the necessity of apprehending and altering our engagement with what he called “thought as a system” — the tacit, culture-wide commitment to a subtly fragmented worldview, inclusive of ourselves and our own “personal” consciousness.

Now, in 2025, we are more enmeshed than ever in this system, due in significant part to the ubiquity of attention-capturing digital devices. This is Bohm’s “hard problem” — the increasing fascination with the self-image, the normalization of narcissism, and addiction to dopamine-fueled stimulation.

In this final weekend we will examine the cultural significance of this hard problem, and the prospect of reorienting ourselves in the current digital milieu.

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🧠 Summary:

• David Bohm’s idea: “Thought as a system” — a fragmented way of perceiving the world that shapes our individual and collective consciousness.

• 2025 relevance: Our thinking is now even more fragmented and distracted, largely due to digital devices.

• “Bohm’s hard problem”: Our obsession with self-image, narcissism, and dopamine-driven behaviors (social media, devices).

• Focus of the event: Exploring how this impacts culture and how we might reorient ourselves in today's tech-saturated environment.

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📘 Christopher Alexander & the "Quality Without a Name"

With the publication in 1977 of A Pattern Language, Christopher Alexander initiated a revolution in how to think about built and inhabited spaces. His emphasis on “the quality without a name” — a mysterious but graspable quality that touches the human soul — was radical and provocative.

This weekend we will explore various approaches to that quality, including the Chinese “heaven-earth-human” principle, and the aesthetics of landscape architecture. We will also give extensive attention to Alexander’s magnum opus on wholeness, The Nature of Order, and his remarkable work delineating the spiritual geometry and color of ancient Turkish carpets.

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🧩 Summary of Key Ideas:

• Christopher Alexander’s impact: Revolutionized thinking around architecture and space with A Pattern Language (1977).

• Core concept: “The quality without a name” — a deep, ineffable aesthetic or spiritual quality in spaces that resonates with the human soul.

• Topics to explore in the weekend:

  • The Chinese heaven-earth-human harmony principle.

  • Landscape architecture aesthetics.

  • Alexander’s later work, The Nature of Order, focusing on wholeness in design.

  • Study of the spiritual geometry and color in ancient Turkish carpets.

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🏔️ July 12 & 13: THE LIVING MOUNTAIN

with Hester Reeve, Maria Hvidbak, Chris Marks

How much time do we allow ourselves to be in the realm of stone, cloud, wind, bird, tree, stream, sun? What is it in our relationship with the natural world that can instill us with feelings of deep relationship and wholeness?

Using the remarkable writings of Scot author Nan Shepherd (The Living Mountain; In the Cairngorms) as our platform, we will look for clues — about the forces and patterns of creation, and about the intermingling of natural patterns and human consciousness.

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🌿 Summary of Key Themes:

• Main inquiry: How does being present in the natural world (mountains, trees, rivers, etc.) deepen our sense of relationship and wholeness?

• Inspirational source: Nan Shepherd’s nature-based writings:

  • The Living Mountain

  • In the Cairngorms

• Focus of the weekend:

  • Exploring the forces and patterns of creation

  • Understanding the interweaving of nature’s rhythms with human consciousness

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🧩 Summary: Wholeness vs. Fragmentation — Bohm’s Lifelong Concern

• Core idea:
  The “flip side” of wholeness is fragmentation, and this dynamic was central to David Bohm’s entire body of work.

• Bohm’s focus areas:
  He explored this wholeness/fragmentation interplay across:

  • Physics

  • Philosophy

  • Dialogue

  • Aesthetics

  • The nature of thought

• Current relevance:
  The upcoming weekend session will focus on how digital media interacts with human consciousness, particularly how:

  “…these media are currently amplifying certain factors that Bohm felt to be at the root of human fragmentation.”

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🔍 Key Quote:

“The flip side of the ‘wholeness coin’ is, of course, fragmentation.”

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